The Fool’s Only Teacher II

Hopefully, this can be turned into a run­ning gag series.

1. SBS Server 2003 Standard Edition sucks. Either get Premium or just eschew SBS alto­gether. I’ll take a wiki over SharePoint anyday.
2. Supposedly, Kerberos authen­ti­ca­tion between an Apache vir­tual host and an ActiveDirectory domain is impos­si­ble. However, mod_auth_pam and pam_krb5 are not only eas­ier to setup, but they work.
3. Backports.org’s ver­sion of trac cur­rently depends on an unavail­able ver­sion of mod_python (libapache2-mod-python2.3). Use mod_fcgi (libapache2-mod-fcgid) instead.
4. In your BackgroundWorker.RunWorkerCompleted han­dler, you can either re-throw excep­tions that were caught from your back­ground thread (and loose stack traces), or use the ‘is’ oper­a­tor in an if-else tree, e.g.

   if( e.Error == null )
       // no exceptions
   else if( e.Error is XmlException )
       // handle XML errors